Don't be a Pinhead

bethje and I watched Bill O'Reilly on David Letterman last night. It was cool how Letterman totally called O'Reilly on the garbage he was going on about, eventually saying that he thought that 60% of what O'Reilly said was crap. Then, after that, we watched Hellraiser V: Inferno, Doug Bradley's least favorite movie in the series. I thought it was probably better than the third one. Beth also liked it better than the fourth, but I disagree. Anyway, Beth suggested that Bradley might have liked it the least because he wasn't in it very much. Pinhead's role in the film is quite minor. There's an interview with Bradley as an extra on the DVD, though, and he explains that Pinhead is more of a referee this time around, sort of like how he was back in the first one. I guess this makes sense. The third and fourth films present him as more of a traditional movie monster, trying to find as many victims as possible. That's not really how he was presented early on, and it's not how he is in Inferno. The movie was a departure from the other ones in many ways, which I suppose is good in a way, but it made it more difficult for me to get into it. I also found it somewhat disappointing that the plot was presented as a mystery, but didn't actually work out to be much of one. Maybe that's more appropriate for a Hellraiser movie, though. I don't know.

I've now finished re-reading The Magician's Nephew. ( SPOILERS )

And finally, I end this entry with a survey, which I took from countblastula.
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